Where am I wearing?
Subtitle: a global tour to the countries, factories, and people that make our clothes
By: Kelsey Timmerman
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781118277553
Subjects: Attitudes; Consumers; Clothing trade; Clothing workers; Wages; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General
Description: "A journalist travels the world to trace the origins of our clothesWhen journalist and traveler Kelsey Timmerman wanted to know where his clothes came from and who made them, he began a journey that would take him from Honduras to Bangladesh to Cambodia to China and back again. Where Am I Wearing? intimately describes the connection between impoverished garment workers' standards of living and the all-American material lifestyle.  By introducing readers to the human element of globalization--the factory workers, their names, their families, and their way of life--Where Am I Wearing bridges the gap between global producers and consumers.  New content includes: a visit to a fair trade Ethiopian shoe factory that is changing lives one job at time; updates on how workers worldwide have been squeezed by rising food costs and declining orders in the wake of the global financial crisis; and the author's search for the garment worker in Honduras who inspired the first edition of the book  Kelsey Timmerman speaks and universities around the country and  maintains a blog at www.whereamiwearing.com. His writing has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor and Conde; Nast Portfolio, and has aired on NPR.  Enlightening and thought-provoking at once, Where Am I Wearing? puts a human face on globalization"--
Notes: Includes index.